We miss you steve
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Steve Jobs was an human too. It’s astonishing how people tend to evangelize him.
In 2007 the requirements of an smartphone were different than nowadays. So it’s hard to believe that he foresee everything or would stand on dogma like : finger reachability one handed or no digitizer…
There would no notch that’s for sure.
The delusion here is strong. Apparently the only thing holding us back from having credit card thin, flat iPhones with no notch and DSLR quality cameras is one belligerent tech executive.
And for all the money Apple now has this just isn’t something they’re interested in making
Looking at the iPhone and saying… sure would be better without the notch or camera bump.
Any idiot can do that. That wasn’t what made Steve Jobs an memorable tech figure
The iPhone isn’t a question. Its roadmap up to the X was probably set by that point.
It’s the iPad and Mac evolutions that probably would’ve been very different, though the move to the M chips was probably the plan back then.
I don’t think they planned upto iPhone X in 2011
Most of the iPhone designs and most of the stuff you use on a daily basis is designed 10 years prior
i think the idea of making iphone full screen was planned from the start
they were waiting for screen of that type
I think you’re underestimating the iPhone design cycle timeline
It most certainly was already envisioned and being actively developed on internally in different steps.
They move hundreds of millions of iPhones per year. They have tremendous amounts of planning to do in order to achieve this kind of production.
I would be shocked if the iPhone launching in 2034 doesn’t already have a solid roadmap and early decisions are already being made
The heat issue that came with poor heat management in 15 says otherwise.
How buried in the sand are you dude?
They fixed in in software like three weeks later
Lets catchup when you play resident evil village on your iPhone 15 pro or pro max. I am telling you from first hand experience 2 days ago. I’ve tried it on 15pm
I am saying that this is not a software issue as said by them. It’s a powerful chip. Probably more than a phone can handle.
The iPhone isn’t a question. Its roadmap up to the X was probably set by that point.
It’s the iPad and Mac evolutions that probably would’ve been very different, though the move to the M chips was probably the plan back then.
i agree at all. but what would be different in iPhone after x series?
A lot cheaper.
Yeah idk what their answer is supposed to mean. Since the X we have had Xs, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15
The X was perfect. Everything after was Xs
Really 6-8 are similar and x-14 are similar. Gradual improvement and small upgrades along with way but nothing ground breaking
X?! No way. Jobs would not allow the elongation of the 5 from the 4.
Steve prolly wouldnt let tim cook
Tim, we have to cook.
LET TIM COOK!
The notch never would have happened. I mean, Steve obsessed over the perfect font. You think he would have given that thing the green light?
He gave the green-light for the antenna bands on the stainless steel bands for the iPhone 4… he even specifically called them out during the keynote.
The notch would have gotten a better explanation - the reason they chose the shape, the extra utility of the areas outside the notch, the fact that it gives the iPhone a unique silhouette against other smartphones.
He hated ugly things that didn’t have a purpose.
The notch had plenty of purpose, if anything he probably would have thrown a fit at first and then declared that it was his idea a day or two later.
You can’t 100% be sure about that, the notch couldn’t be avoided with the X unless they didn’t add FaceID and only kept a single punch hole camera there
This, or the iPhone would still have uneven bezels on the top and bottom like before.
So we just never would have had an edge to edge design?
Or they would have gotten rid of the selfie camera?
yeah prob no notch, and for sure no notch on the laptop. like i understand the notch on the iphone. but why the fuck does a laptop that doesn’t even have FaceID need a notch?
I don’t want faceID on my macbook. it’s perfect for the phone, while touchID is perfect for laptop
I still suspect Apple had plans made for adding FaceID to the MacBook Pro redesign but they couldn’t work out the sensors in time, but the design was already done. Then the notch has already become a design element so now they’re stuck adding it to all new laptops to maintain software parity between models.
That makes no sense because that means they could have added faceid later on as planned which they havent
Have you used MacOS? Notch is perfect way to add extra space for this OS. You have all options and system icons tucked nicely on its sides and space below is your actual screen that is perfect rectangle.
Way more useful notch and space it frees than touchbar ever was
It’s still goofy as hell, though. The notch is there purely to distinguish it from other products. The bezels are more than large enough to fit a webcam. Other manufacturers have even smaller bezels and still manage to fit everything in.
Dunno, the iPhone notch looked fine to me, but the MacBook one is still silly to me. Maybe something with the sharp corner radius or how large the bezels still are with it in.
but the horizontal space on the notch is just used to make the top bar taller, it doesn’t free any real space.
The notch is hideous. The bubble is even more atrocious than the notch… it’s interesting seeing people lie to themselves that a notched phone is better than one without it.
I think the phones would be smaller and the camera wouldn’t stick out
Probably wouldn’t be so phallic
Highly doubt it would be much different.
They would have stayed thinner and maybe smaller. All Apple product where always about being thinnest in class. And then they became thicker again unfortunately
I think a lot of things Apple has done today on the iPhone wouldn’t have been allowed with Steve. The protruding camera and how the whole camera bump looks awkward, notch, and what the iPhone has become. Apple went from a company that was very focused on the product to a company that cares less about the product. Apple today seems like they only care about pumping out products and printing money and way less product focused. Personally, I don’t think that’s such a great look.
Triangle phone
We would still have Skeumophism.
I don’t think we would have had big iPhones. Think they would be about the size of the X as a max. Jobs was very keen on the design of being able to navigate with one finger and reach all of the screen while the phone is held in your hand. If that makes any sense…?
Agree , in the first iPhone release show he hammered that point home many times
I can recall people arguing about the iPhone’s screen size being too small around the time Steve Jobs died, so I think the size increase has more to do with market demand rather than anything else.
Yeah. There’s the reason the PM model of a lineup is extremely well sold
Lots of stainless steel ;-) He loved the patina look on stainless [ipods]
SS rails never aged well though imo
No I don’t like the look of ss all scratched up either, so I’d slap an ugly car on my beautiful iPod